Martha Plimpton Quotes
That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
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The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.
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You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
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The gay-rights community had a strategy going in; they thought that they needed to have 30 states with some form of recognition - whether that be marriage, whether it be civil unions - but they wanted to have 30 states signed on before they went to the federal courts.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
